‘Almagul Menlibayeva uses photography and video to reflect on history, memory and landscape. Employing an aesthetic she calls ‘Romantic Punk Shamanism’, she imagines a pre-Soviet, pre-Islamic realm distinguished by a radical freedom of the human body. Her ambitious new five-channel video installation, Kurchatov 22 2012, revisits Semipalatinsk in north-east Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union’s main site for nuclear weapons tests throughout the Cold War. Founded in 1947 on direct orders from Stalin, the site was finally closed in 1991 after hundreds of nuclear tests. Blending documentary techniques and her signature performance style, Menlibayeva investigates the atrocious ongoing effects of radiation on local populations and Soviet workers.’
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